Funny "Code" Last Night

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So last night I responded to a code called in the spinal cord injury center. We (code team) arrived in the room to find a bewildered little old man, obviously not in arrest, sitting on a comode asking why on earth all these people where flooding into his room.
Turns out his nurse had called out to the new grad nurse at the nursing station:

"CAN YOU GET A COMODE?"

The new grad heard

"CAN YOU CALL A CODE!"

The new gad had called for the code and then went about her duties. The patient's nurse and the patient had no idea a code had been called until the code team came running into the room.

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I had something similar happen to me when I was a CNA. I was told to call a level two ( meaning we needed 2 security guards, worked on psych at the time). The operator somehow called it as a RR2 ( 2nd stage of a rapid response, which would be the equivalent to a code blue, and not supposed to be called unless an RR1 was called).

So she called a code and then went about her business?? Wasn't even curious about a code? Didn't bring the crash cart in?? This is funny and sad!

Yeah, something about this story is a bit off. If there is a code called, everyone goes running, the nurses, aides, etc on the unit. Nobody makes a phonecall and then just sits back and files their nails, so to speak.